Originally Posted by soxfanndc

Hi there everyone. I spent a bit searching for this on an existing thread but did not find it so PLEASE forgive me if this is a dupe. I fly United about once a year or so but I want to purchase a r/t Biz Class to BOM. I live in DC but don't mind "repositioning" to a diff city to get a better fare. I have two questions please (oh, and I'd like to book the EWR-BOM portion on United if I can)
1. i can leave out of any city West of the Mississippi really, any city known to have slightly better fares so then I can do XXX-EWR-BOM?
2) I curr have about 40,000 miles on United. Is there any tool I can use to shave some $ off the fare (I don't care much about earning miles if that's a consideration)?
thanks for any helpful input and safe travels.